A tornado tore through the New Orleans area on Tuesday night, tossing cars, destroying homes, causing multiple injuries, and killing at least one person. (Watch above)

“We have some homes that were leveled. We have homes that were lifted up and put back down on the street,” St. Bernard Parish President Guy McInnis told CNN.

Rescue crews worked through the wreckage in the New Orleans suburb on Wednesday morning, searching for residents that need assistance.

The tornado also touched down in New Orlean’s Lower Ninth Ward, which was pummeled by Hurricane Katrina 17 years ago. Luckily, no significant property damage was reported there as the result of Tuesday’s twister.

The Associated Press adds:

Other tornadoes spawned by the same storm system had hit parts of Texas and Oklahoma on Monday, killing a woman north of Dallas and causing multiple injuries and widespread damage, before moving eastward.

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Arabi, in St. Bernard Parish, was particularly hard hit on Tuesday night. A 26-year-old man was found dead there, outside his home. An overturned bus blocked the entrance to Arabi Elementary School and debris – including roofs and tree limbs – scattered the streets.

John Lane, a spokesman for St. Bernard Parish, told The Washington Post Arabi suffered “severe devastation” including structural damage to many homes.

Arabi resident Chuck Heirsch told NOLA.com that he spotted an empty wheelchair on the street belong to a disabled girl that lives near him. Community members rushed to help the girl’s parents remove her from their home.

“I saw the house and I saw my neighbor trying to get his daughter out of there,” said Heirsch, who called first responders. “They were screaming. His wife was hysterical. They were already traumatized from taking that Wizard of Oz ride.”

NOLA.com reports:

“All the men in the neighborhood ran to the house. The mother, they brought her to me. I just held her,” said Nerissa Ledet. “I tried to console her. I said, ‘You know they’re going to get her out.’”

A team of firefighters and other first responders carried the girl out in a blanket, neighbors said. She was hospitalized and “doing fine,” said St. Bernard Parish President Guy McInnis at a news conference. Family members could not be immediately reached.

The Washington Post adds:

About 1,800 people were without power in St. Bernard Parish as of early Wednesday, and another 3,100 people had lost power in Jefferson and Orleans parishes, according to PowerOutageUS.com.

Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) said state and local officials were assessing the damage. “My prayers are with you in Southeast Louisiana tonight,” he said in a tweet. “Please be safe.”

Parts of the Florida Panhandle and Southeastern Alabama remained under a tornado watch early Wednesday morning, according to The New York Times.